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    <![CDATA[What It Is]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;<strong>“Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —</strong><em><strong>Salon</strong><br/></em>&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. <em>What It Is</em> demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry’s first Drawn &amp; Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: “The ordinary is extraordinary.”&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[THE ORDINARY IS EXTRAORDINARY. i love this book like i have never loved a book. i want to make out with it, caress it, sleep with it near my pillow and wake up clutching it after a bad dream. <br/><br/><br/>this book is related to the Lynda Barry writing class WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE! which i too...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24232977">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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